Morris tribune., 1887-03-02
THE SENATE BILLS.

OF the total number of bills which passed
the senate $40 became laws, including 110
of public and 205 of a strictly private
nature. The following is list of the more
important senate bulls placed on the statute
books OF the present congress:
The presidential sucoessionak- bill devolving
hcrsh1p to the presidency upon me-lbers of the
cabinet, in the event of vacancy in the office
of president and vice president: interstate COM
merce bill; for the retirement and recolnage OF
trade dollars; the electoral count bill for the al
lotment of lands In severalty to Indians and ex-
tending the protection of the laws to Indians on
the various reservations; to repeal the tenure OF
office act; to increase the annual appropriation
Tor militia; to establish agricultural experiment
stations; for the study of the effects of mar
cotlcs and intoxicants in the public schools; to
legallZe the incorporation of trades unions; to
increase the pension for the loss Of an arm or
leg; to indemnify the Chinese for loss sustained
by the Rock Springs riots; for the relief OF
washington Territory and Idaho; for the settle
ment of accounts for arms between Montana
and the United States; to amend the laws re-
latlng to patents, trade marks and copyrights;
to authorize the postmaster general to allow
compensation for railroads for apartment car
service furnished pursuant to agreement: to
provide for the execution of articles Of the Chi
ncso treaty of Nov. II, 1870.
OF the foregoing measures seven became
laws by the expiration of the constitutional
ten days limit, the Mormon polygary, trade
dollar, militia and four private bills The
senate bills vetoed were thirty nine In num-
Der, eleven being of public and twenty
eight of private character. Among the pub
lie bills vetoed were these:
To quiet the titles of settlers on the Des
Moines river lands passed over the veto in the
senate and failed of the two-thirds in the
housed; for the erection of public building at
Sioux City, Iowa: to grant railroads right or
way Though an Indian reservation IN Montana.
The ninety three house bills vetoed in
cluded eighty seven private bills and six
bills of public nature. Among the public
bills vetoed were those for the erection of a
federal building at Duluth Mimi TO dis
tribute seeds among the drouth-stricken
people of Texas, and to grant pensions to
dependent soldiers and dependent relatives
OF deceased soldiers.
THE REGULAR APPROPRIATION BILLS
which failed of enactment were the fortihca-
ton bill for both congresses, the river and
harbor bill of the present session (Which was
not signed by the presidenD and the de-
ticiency bill, on which the conference report
was not submitted in time for action Fifty
bills in addition to these which became
laws and those vetoed were sent to the pres
ident, but were pocSeted by him on the adj
journment of congress, and therefore failed
The most important are as follows:
The river and harbor; to prevent the employ
ment OF convict and alien labor on public works
to open to settlement the public land strip south
of Kansas; the O'Neil labor arbitration bill for
the settlement OF controversies between inter
state roads and their employees; the Morrison
SUI p!uS ISSOlublOnT 10 AuUeA part Oh 1u6uO u
Washington Territory
The Northern Pacific forfeiture bill and
the bill to repeal the presumption and
timber culture and desert land laws
were in conference for a long while but the
differences proved lrreconcilable. The bill
to tax fractional parts q a gallon of spirits
was killed by a refusal of the house to &C
cept the conference report Bills establish
ing additional aids to navigation at the
| mouth of the Mississippi and FORGETTING the
| land grant to a railroad from Ontonagon to
| the Wisconsin state line also failed in con-
| ference. while the bill to create depart
| ment of agriculture and labor was killed by
the inability of its friends TO send it to con-
ference committee. About 100 bills and
joint resolutions which passed the house
failed of action in the senate, some of which
were defeated by adverse committee re-
ports. The most important of these are as
follows:
To authorize the establishment Of export to-
bacco manufactures and for drawback upon
imported articles used in manufacturing ex-
ported tobacco; terminate certain Chinese
treaty stipulations and prohibit the Chinese i'm
migration in the United States
About seventy-tve bills passed by the SEN
ate failed of passage in the house. The Blair
educational bill, after passing the senate was
never allowed to come before the house for
action, although its friends claimed de-
cided majority in its favor on test vote.